#42 - Empathy

from Pocket Fiction · host Steve Cook

The social media of tomorrow might use your emotions to make the experience more immersive. Imagine looking at a photo on Facebook and receiving an emotion, prepackaged, as part of the deal. But what if this technology could be used for more nefarious means, to inflict emotion on the unwary...?

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